When a user specifies a URL for a specific version of a package, Spack originally
would use that URL for all newer versions of the package. This behavior has
proven to be generally more harmful than useful, so this PR removes the feature
such that a version-specific URL override affects only that version.
If the user sets "ccache: true" in spack's config.yaml, Spack will use an available
ccache executable when compiling c/c++ code. This feature is disabled by default
(i.e. "ccache: false") and the documentation is updated with how to enable
ccache support
Functional updates:
- `python` now creates a copy of the `python` binaries when it is added
to a view
- Python extensions (packages which subclass `PythonPackage`) rewrite
their shebang lines to refer to python in the view
- Python packages in the same namespace will not generate conflicts if
both have `...lib/site-packages/namespace-example/__init__.py`
- These `__init__` files will also remain when removing any package in
the namespace until the last package in the namespace is removed
Generally (Updated 2/16):
- Any package can define `add_files_to_view` to customize how it is added
to a view (and at the moment custom definitions are included for
`python` and `PythonPackage`)
- Likewise any package can define `remove_files_from_view` to customize
which files are removed (e.g. you don't always want to remove the
namespace `__init__`)
- Any package can define `view_file_conflicts` to customize what it
considers a merge conflict
- Global activations are handled like views (where the view root is the
spec prefix of the extendee)
- Benefit: filesystem-management aspects of activating extensions are
now placed in views (e.g. now one can hardlink a global activation)
- Benefit: overriding `Package.activate` is more straightforward (see
`Python.activate`)
- Complication: extension packages which have special-purpose logic
*only* when activated outside of the extendee prefix must check for
this in their `add_files_to_view` method (see `PythonPackage`)
- `LinkTree` is refactored to have separate methods for copying a
directory structure and for copying files (since it was found that
generally packages may want to alter how files are copied but still
wanted to copy directories in the same way)
TODOs (updated 2/20):
- [x] additional testing (there is some unit testing added at this point
but more would be useful)
- [x] refactor or reorganize `LinkTree` methods: currently there is a
separate set of methods for replicating just the directory structure
without the files, and a set for replicating everything
- [x] Right now external views (i.e. those not used for global
activations) call `view.add_extension`, but global activations do not
to avoid some extra work that goes into maintaining external views. I'm
not sure if addressing that needs to be done here but I'd like to
clarify it in the comments (UPDATE: for now I have added a TODO and in
my opinion this can be merged now and the refactor handled later)
- [x] Several method descriptions (e.g. for `Package.activate`) are out
of date and reference a distinction between global activations and
views, they need to be updated
- [x] Update aspell package activations
- Spack was assuming that a group with gid == current uid would always exist.
- This was breaking the travis build for macos.
- also fix issue with the DB tarball test finding coverage filesx
- pytest was not reporing the correct version from pytest.__version__.
It reported 'unknown'
- this fixes issues on some systems where system-installed pytest plugins
would try to use the version and convert it to an int
The following improvements are made to cxx standard support
(e.g. compiler.cxxNN_flag functions) in compilers:
* Add cxx98_flag property
* Add support for throwing an exception when a flag is not supported (previously
if a flag was not supported the application was terminated with tty.die)
* The name of the flag associated with e.g. c++14 standard support changes for
different compiler versions (e.g. c++1y vs c++14). This makes a few corrections
on what flag to return for which version.
* Added tests to confirm that versions report expected flags for various c++
standards (or raise an exception for versions that don't provide a given cxx
standard)
Note that if a given cxx standard is the default, the associated flag property will
return ""; cxx98 is assumed to be the default standard so this is the behavior for
the associated property in the base compiler class.
Package changes:
* Improvements to the boost spec to take advantage of the improved standard
flag facility.
* Update the clingo spec to catch the new exception rather than look for an
empty flag to indicate non-support (which is not part of the compiler flag API)
Fixes#7885#7193 added the patches_to_apply function to collect patches which are then
applied in Package.do_patch. However this only collects patches that are
associated with the Package object and does not include Spec-related patches
(which are applied by dependents, added in #5476).
Spec.patches already collects patches from the package as well as those applied
by dependents, so the Package.patches_to_apply function isn't necessary. All
uses of Package.patches_to_apply are replaced with Package.spec.patches.
This also updates Package.content_hash to require the associated spec to be
concrete: Spec.patches is only set after concretization. Before this PR, it was
possible for Package.content_hash to be valid before concretizing the associated
Spec if all patches were associated with the Package (vs. being applied by
dependents). This behavior was unreliable though so the change is unlikely to
be disruptive.
Fixes#8345
Spack environment modifications are applied before modules are loaded; this
includes settings to CC, FC, F77, and CXX, which point to the Spack compiler
wrappers. If the loaded modules set CC, this overrides the Spack compiler
wrappers. This PR adds a context manager to preserve the values of CC etc. that
are set by Spack: any effects on the CC, FC, F77, and CXX variables from modules
are undone and their original values are restored.
* pybind11: test support
Add a test functionality to pybind11.
* CMake: test also on "make check"
Some projects use non-CTest manual targets for tests.
* extend Prefix class with join() member to support dynamic directories
* add more tests for Prefix.join()
* more tests for Prefix.join()
* add docstring
* add example to docstring of Prefix class
* cleanup Prefix.join() tests
* use Prefix.join() in Packaging Guide
Fixes#8217
Trying to relocate a distribution when the new and old paths are
equal leads to failure, because the test that ensures that no
unrelocated bits are left over always fails. As an example, this
occurs if a user installs a package, generates a binary with it
using 'spack buildcache', uninstalls it, and then attempts to
reinstall into the same spack installation using the generated
binary package.
This updates the relocation check to accept the presence of the
old prefix in binaries if the package is being reinstalled into
its original location.
* allow user to constrain dependencies that are added conditionally
* remove check for not-visited deps from normalize, move it to concretize. The check now runs after the concretization loop completes (so an error is only reported if the user-mentioned spec doesnt appear anywhere in the dag)
* remove separate full_spec_deps variable; rename spec_deps to all_spec_deps to clarify that it merges user-specified dependencies with derived dependencies
* add unit test to confirm new functionality
- `spack config blame` is similar to `spack config get`, but it prints
out the config file and line number that each line of the merged
configuration came from.
- This is a debugging tool for understanding where Spack config settings
come from.
- add tests for config blame
Fixes: #8258#8090 altered import behavior so that import spack no longer
provides access to many other Spack modules. This addresses
a case which depended on the prior behavior and was not
updated as part of #8090. This particular import error only
came up when users were setting compiler flags on specs.
See also: #8194
- there were some leftover spack.* names being used after we removed
globals and moved everything in the top-level namespace to spack.pkgkit
- point those references to their new homes
- remove most `import spack` statements, except for files that need
`spack_version`
- import spack is no longer sufficient to use submodules
(e.g. spack.directives).
- these submodules must be imported directly. Update references
accordingly.
- Spack packages were originally expected to call `from spack import *`
themselves, but it has become difficult to manage imports in the
Spack core.
- the top-level namespace polluted by package symbols, and it's not
possible to avoid circular dependencies and unnecessary module loads in
the core, given all the stuff the packages need.
- This makes the top-level `spack` package essentially empty, save for a
version tuple and a version string, and `from spack import *` is now
essentially a no-op.
- The common routines and directives that packages need are now in
`spack.pkgkit`, and the import system forces packages to automatically
include this so that old packages that call `from spack import *`
will continue to work without modification.
- Since `from spack import *` is no longer required, we could consider
removing ``from spack import *`` from packages in the future and
shifting to ``from spack.pkgkit import *``, but we can wait a while to
do this.
- spack.util.lock behaves the same as llnl.util.lock, but Lock._lock and
Lock._unlock do nothing.
- can be disabled with a control variable.
- configuration options can enable/disable locking:
- `locks` option in spack configuration controls whether Spack will use filesystem locks or not.
- `-l` and `-L` command-line options can force-disable or force-enable locking.
- Spack will check for group- and world-writability before disabling
locks, and it will not allow a group- or world-writable instance to
have locks disabled.
- update documentation
